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I removed 200gb from the home partition, and now am adding 200gb to the root sda1. settings : ext4 journaling, check the format the partition box, and set the mount point to “/“. sound correct?

There was nothing useful in the FAQ but I found the following online: The boot sector needs to find the boot partition, after that the boot loader goes off the partitions, it doesn't care were they're located at on the drive. I'm assuming you're using gparted live by the screen shot. After...

When I right click on the partition in goarted, there is an optionnto unmount. Should I try that?

I keep getting disconnected and have to start a new thread. I’ve been at this many hours and very frustrated The issue was Downloads was case sensitive. I got it made as executable, and a dialog box popped ip saying Selected file does not have read permission

the correct path is /home/randy/downloads but when I enter cd ~/downloads or cd /home/randy/downloads I get “ No such file or directory” message

One last question. I believe I should make the root partition “primary” & the home partition “logical”. correct?

After getting linux to recognize the newly created partition from my prior thread referenced above, Linux doesn't recognize the new sector, meaning I cannot save to it or use it at all from my current linux OS. I assume I need to install linux on this newly created partition and then use it as...

I installed Linus Mint on an external drive and I am unable to access the drive. How can I re-partition the drive